President Barack Obama and
former President Bill Clinton.Alex
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Republicans are slamming President Barack Obama and his flagship
Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, by highlighting
the words of another former Democratic president who happens to
be the spouse of the current Democratic nominee.

On the campaign trail on Monday, former President Bill Clinton
called parts of the law the "craziest thing in the world" because
of a gap in subsidies that leaves many middle-income families
without support.

Obamacare currently provides subsidies for a family of four that
makes less than roughly $100,000 combined to receive health
insurance
through the ACA's public marketplaces if they do not have
insurance through their jobs or government programs like Medicare
or Medicaid.

This leaves families making above that threshold without access
to subsidies, but still requires them to get health insurance
because of the law's mandate. Given the increasing costs of
health insurance premiums and the problems facing the ACA
exchanges, Bill Clinton bemoaned the squeezing of middle-class
families.

"It doesn't make any sense," Bill Clinton said at a campaign stop
for Hillary Clinton. "The [health] insurance model doesn't work
here. It's not like life insurance. It's not like causality. It's
not like predicting flood. It doesn't work."